Poetry Quotes

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a love.
Robert Frost

A poem can have an impact, but do not expect the public to understand all the nuances.
Douglas Dunn

A translated poem as a message that the origin of a message, a sense of arrival.
Thomas Harrison

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery

A poem is true if it is held. Information points to something else. A poem is nothing other than itself.
E. Mr. Forster

A poem can be defined as thinking about feelings - human emotions and weaknesses.
Anne Stevenson

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden

A closer look at the world of how a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens

Autobiography of a poet is his poetry. Everything else is just a note.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The work of a poet is to call the unnameable, to point to fraud, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie

A true poet does not care to be poetic. Is not it a perfume pink nursery.
Jean Cocteau

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde

Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
Charles Baudelaire

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
Muriel Rukeyser

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to loosen.
Jean Cocteau

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset

Each word carries weight, if you look at my poems to read very slowly.
Anne Stevenson

Even when poetry has a meaning, as he often may be advisable to withdraw ... Perfect understanding sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman